About the MultilingualWeb ProjectGiven the fundamental nature of the World Wide Web for communication in all walks of life, and as the share of English web pages decreases and that of languages spoken in the European Union and around the world increases, the importance of ensuring the multilingual viability of the World Wide Web is paramount.MultilingualWebMW_a3821c18-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e90587World Wide Web ConsortiumThe work of the MultilingualWeb initiative is being driven by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization of around 400 member organizations worldwide from research and industry, headed by the Web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.European CommissionIt is supported with funding from the European Commission.A multilingual World Wide Web_a3821e2a-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e90587To raise awareness of existing best practices and standards related to the management of content on the multilingual Web._a3821ede-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e90587MultilingualismBest PracticesStandardsStandards and best practices enable interoperability of data, which in turn maximizes the potential for access to information, ensures longevity and usability of data, and improves the efficiency of processes for producing, localizing and disseminating information.InteroperabilityAccessLongevityUsabilityEfficiencyLocalizationDisseminationCoherenceThis project is particularly concerned with increasing interoperability and encouraging coherence across the multilingual Web. Standards provide targets that push applications to consider the requirements for supporting multilingual aspects of the Web for creation, display and management of content.Multilingual ContentRemove barriers to multilingual content for the Web._a3822064-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e90587W3COrganizations such as the W3C and the IETF, for example, have worked on the use of Unicode in Web technologies, roll-out of Internationalized Domain Names, development of standardised language tags, etc.IETFImportant standardization work has already been done or is in progress to establish a base for multilingual deployment of the Web... Nevertheless, people producing multilingual content for the Web feel that there remain a number of barriers to full multilingual roll-out of information and tools, and these need to be identified.
These barriers, in a range of areas, reduce efficiency or prevent the work of those attempting to provide a truly multilingual Web experience, affecting the ability to produce, localize, manage and share information and applications on the Web.
Following on from the thematic network project, which ran from 2010 to 2012, other projects have supported the aims and workshops associated with the MultilingualWeb brand...LIDERBuild a pathway for the establishment of a new Linked Open Data-based ecosystem._a3822208-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e905871October 2013 - September 2015 --
Aims to build a pathway for the establishment of a new Linked Open Data-based ecosystem of free, interlinked, and semantically interoperable resources. These resources come from the realm of both language and media, providing a Linguistic Linked Data cloud that can support content analytics tasks of unstructured multilingual cross-media content. By achieving this goal, LIDER will have an impact on the ease and efficiency with which Linguistic Linked Data will be exploited in content analytics processes.MultilingualWeb-LTDefine meta-data for web content and "deep Web" content._a38222a8-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e905872January 2012 - December 2013 --
Defined meta-data for web content (mainly HTML5) and "deep Web" content to facilitate interaction between multilingual technologies and localization processes, and demonstrated interoperable implementations.MultilingualWeb Thematic NetworkConduct workshops related to the multilingual Web._a3822398-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e905873April 2010 - March 2012 --
Was coordinated by W3C/ERCIM, and had twenty two partners, representing a wide range of stakeholders from around Europe. At the core of the project were 4 public workshops, held over a two year period, aimed at improving networking between stakeholders, sharing information about existing standards and best practices, and identifying gaps that need to be addressed related to the multilingual Web.NetworkingImprove networking between stakeholders._a382244c-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e905873.1InformationShare information about existing standards and best practices._a38225f0-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e905873.2GapsIdentify gaps that need to be addressed related to the multilingual Web._a38226a4-bb61-11e6-bb0c-f3c7f7e905873.32016-12-05https://www.multilingualweb.eu/about-the-projectOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net